Product Description
The entry point of the Mortlach range, combining both ex-bourbon- and ex-sherry-matured whisky to balance the distillery's traditionally weighty, dried fruit character against fresh fruit and vanilla notes. The result is a success, combining the best of both of these worlds while still showing off the meaty Mortlach spirit.
Style
Style
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3
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3
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0
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3
Character
Character
- Dried Fruit
- Vanilla
- Walnut
- Dates
- Lemon
Food Pairing
Food Pairing
Our wine expert, head buyer and experienced sommelier Dawn Davies MW, recommends Mortlach 12 Year Old to bring out the best in these dishes.
- Fried Chicken
- Dim Sum
- Monkfish
Product Facts
Product Facts
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Bottler
Distillery Bottling
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Age
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Country
Scotland
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Region
Speyside
Mortlach 12 Year Old The Wee Witchie
70cl / 43.4%
In stock online
£73.25
Web Exclusive Price
£61.04 ex VAT
(£104.64 per litre)
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Delivery
Delivery
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Express delivery(Choose a day)
From £6.95
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Standard delivery (2-4 Working Days)
From £4.95
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Click & Collect (Mon-Fri 10am - 5pm)
Free
How We Pack
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Eco-friendly packaging
Our boxes are made of 100% recyclable cardboard and our protective honeycomb paper wrap keeps your package safe and significantly reduces our need for plastic.
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Flexible delivery options
We deliver to countries all over the world! You can also select express delivery, or pick a specific delivery date, at checkout.
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Packed with care
Our experienced warehouse team take great care with every order. As specialists in glass packaging they ensure that your items stay safe and secure in transit.
Returns
30-Day returns policy
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Tasting Notes
Tasting Notes
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Tasting Notes from Billy Abbott, The Whisky Exchange
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Nose
Nutty fruit cake with juicy sultanas, candied ginger and bittersweet marmalade. Fruity dark chocolate sits underneath, along with baked apples topped with a generous grating of nutmeg. Gravelly touches develop, with walnuts and hazelnuts, and a touch of nut-shell woodiness. The nuts become nut brittle and candied peanuts, and more fruit appears: tropical trail mix and dried apple rings.
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Palate
Rich toffee and brown sugar. Soft sultanas and spiced sponge cake follow. Spice rolls in – cinnamon and clove – with raisin-topped baked apples dusted with caster sugar. Poached pear notes develop, drizzled with caramel sauce and served with a side of apple jelly.
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Finish
Charred raisins and sultanas, sharp apples and their skin. This sweetens and becomes lingering tarte tatin.
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Comment
Well balanced, combining darker sherry notes with fresher orchard-fruit flavours, all while emphasising the distillery’s weighty character.
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Producer's Notes
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Nose
Rich and deep, with immediate warming, toasty oak tones (wood shavings) and a light peachy element that moves towards honey and then cooked fruits hinting at good depth. Some chestnut helps to add a sweet nutty background alongside hints of wax crayon. This impression of oak, sandalwood, light spice, and fruit - now with some dried berries - slowly gives way to some charred elements, hard (Highland) toffee and some light meatiness. Once this is established (and it takes time) it starts to deepen, earthy, petrichor, (the smell of early autumn), dried blossom, pineapple and bitter orange that itself extends into Terry’s chocolate orange and then cooked plum. As it dries so the woodland gives way to a coal bunker/lichen encrusted logs in a woodpile.
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Body
Medium to heavy, with a thick texture.
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Palate
A sweet, almost peachy, concentrated start with a little oak and almost smoky (charred) element. It’s at its most expressive on the mid-palate where you pick out bitter chocolate, marmalade and light tobacco that’s balanced by a puddle of syrup before it deepens further and starts to grip, there’s liquorice, roast chestnut, tree bark, roasting coffee, and a burnt edge which might be the sulphur working its way out. As it develops so you get bourbon biscuit, then the meaty flavours which themselves have the herbal qualities of goat or lamb. The grip loosens, and light gets back in with things getting sweeter and also more spicy.
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Finish
Quite dry and slightly sooty/ashy with oak (fresh-sawn timber). There’s some plum with an added hint of bitterness.
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Customer Reviews
(7 Reviews)
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Good autumn dram.
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Fabulous 12yo from Speyside. Not sure I need to try older expressions from this distillery. The 'Wee Witchie' is as good as anything I've sampled from the region. There's creamy toffee, and a hint of liquorice along with the alcohol on the nose. It's Christmas cake in a glass on the palate as sherried fruits and nuts come through, with a lovely dry finish. One that I'll always have in the collection. One criticism, poor quality cheap plastic seal and poor fitting cork, caused slight leakage on my bottle. Retailer changed without question but something distillery needs to look at. Far too good a product to scrimp on poor quality seal.
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Loved it. Smooth with a little burn at the end. Both me and my father enjoyed it.
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Mortlach 12 is delicious! Not a spicy dram, but nutty and fruity. Give it a long rest in the glass (20 minutes) and no water. Simply superb.
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This is a shockingly good whisky. One of the best I've had. I can't even discard the empty bottle .It too is a good thing.
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